No! this post is not about the Greek? yes, better, the global financial crisis. We wish to keep this post, just informative for those visiting Greece soon and they wish to have some information about financial services in Greece.
You will meet rather many
Eurobank branches everywhere in Greece and especially in Athens. Their website is:
http://www.eurobank.gr Eurobank belongs to
Latsis family, a famous multi billionaire Greek Family.
Eurobank's strong point is their stable
Online Banking Services that definitely you will find useful.
Eurobank has recently merged with the following
Alpha Bank: http://www.alpha.gr/
Alpha bank started as a small bank and over the years succeeded to be one of the major financial groups in Greece, operating mainly in Balkans: Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the Midle East. They operate offices also in London.
A bank that you definitely heard about is the
National Greek Bank, where its main offices are near the parliament. Their website is bit poor and it seems to service mainly Greek Customers :)
http://www.nbg.gr/
A rather new bank compared to the history of the other banks is the
Trapeza Peiraios http://www.piraeusbank.gr/ . Over the past years were quite popular operating also in other countries like England promoting Greek Tourism and Greek Real Estate. At the moment, they try to find their way out from the Greek Financial crunch. They have solid Internet Banking services.
Now, if you are looking for international banks here are some:
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HSBC has several branches in Athens, and its main office is located in a walking distance from Syntagma, at Vopukourestiou. Their main office looks quite similar with the ones that you have been used in your countries, thus you will feel already safe.
http://www.hsbc.com
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Geniki Trapeza, the Greek Branch of the French
Societe Generale Financial Group.
http://www.societegenerale.com/ http://www.geniki.gr/
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Emporiki Bank, another French Operated Bank in Greece belonging to the
Credit Agricole group.
http://www.emporiki.gr,
http://www.credit-agricole.com/en
Now if you are more interested about Greek Banks and you wish to know even the small ones,
Agrotiki Trapeza is one. Both the National Bank and the Agrotiki Trapeza are public banks whereas the others are private ones.
I hope that you found these lines interesting. For more information, please get adviced from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Greece
